Twelve years later one of the Clarks, holding Greenfields, not so very green by now, shot one of the Judsons.

and she looked at the fat Clarks who came next.

Then she turned again to the fat Clarks, evidently liking their jolly faces best.

Presently I heard Lady Farrington roaring in a whisper into her ears the difference between the Clarkes and the Clarks, and the poor dear was so upset; but her kind heart came up trumps, and she was awfully nice to the two vulgar Clarks, who had the good sense to go soon, and then the others went.

Presently I heard Lady Farrington roaring in a whisper into her ears the difference between the Clarkes and the Clarks, and the poor dear was so upset; but her kind heart came up trumps, and she was awfully nice to the two vulgar Clarks, who had the good sense to go soon, and then the others went.

All he said was, "I was thinking of the Clarkes and Clarks."

He had on his Filson bush jacket, Levis, and his all purpose Clarks shoes.

He bought another pair, the same style, trusty Clarks.

"Clarks," stammered the feeble hatter, feeling vainly for the arm-holes in his great-coat"clarks presume on their value.

After the arrival of the head "clarks" and stenographers at nine-forty-five, there ensued fifteen minutes of guarded conversation in front of the offices.

To distinguish unmarried from married ladies, the proper name, and not the title, should be varied; as, the Miss Clarks.

" "We'll have to keep our eyes open for a pink lady's slipper over in the damp part of the Clarks' field," said Roger.

CHAPTER XIV UNCLE DAN'S RESEARCHES "Uncle Dan," whose last name was Hapgood, did not cease his calls upon the Clarks.

By degrees the "botanist's" repeated questioning put him in command of all the information the Clarks had themselves about the clue that Stanley was hunting down.

" For several days he was not seen either by the Clarks or by the girls who went to the Motor Inn to attend to the flowers, and Mrs. Foster told the Ethels that Mary had been left in her care while her uncle went away on a business trip.

At the end of a week he appeared again at the Clarks', bringing the young girl with him.

The Clarks said that they had heard so.

Mrs. Smith found her crying one day when she came upon her suddenly in the hammock on the Clarks' veranda.

"They may be all right, and he may be honestly mistaken in thinking that his Emily is the Clarks' Emily; or he may have faked some of his records.

Where Hapgood's copy had been deficient was in his failing to record that this Emily Leonard was the daughter of George and Sabina Leonard, whereas the Clarks' Emily was the daughter of Peter and Judith Leonard.

"But it leaves us just where we were about the person the Clarks' Emily married.

"Don't you know the Miss Clarks said they thought that Mary said her father was alive but her uncle interrupted her loudly and said she was 'an orphan, poor kid'?"

Such was the case with the Clarks, Boons, Seviers, Shelbys, Robertsons, Logans, Cockes, Crocketts, etc.; many of whose descendants it has been my good-fortune personally to know.

Having often met with their Faces, and observed a certain slinking Way in their dropping in one after another, I had the Curiosity to enquire into their Characters, being the rather moved to it by their agreeing in the Singularity of their Dress; and I find upon due Examination they are a Knot of Parish-Clarks, who have taken a fancy to one another, and perhaps settle the Bills of Mortality over their Half-pints.

I know not, but truly I do fear there is a making up there: for I heard the servants, as I past by some, whisper such a thing: and as I came back through the hall, there were two or three Clarks writing great conveyances in hast, which they said were for their Mistris joynture.